#lit

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. ↗

— Neil Postman

#disinformation #facade #falsities #politics #show-business

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#politics #business

Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted. ↗

— Earle Birney

#business

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction. ↗

— Oakley Hall

#literature #philosophy #truth #business

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#favourite #game #incorrect #politically #politically incorrect

Consultants show you way forward and consider the job done, conveniently forgetting that if a child is only shown where to go and not how to walk towards it, he will never reach there. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#business #consultant #reality #strategy #business

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#counsellor #counselor #humanity #joy #kindness

As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92) ↗

— Bob Burg and John David Mann

#reaching-people #selling #business

People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#sexuality #business

If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices. ↗

— Dani Rodrik

#economics #globalization #instituions #politics #business